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10) Martin Luther
Author
Publisher
Abingdon-Cokesbury Press
Pub. Date
[1953]
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther's Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Luther's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxi, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as a man of his time: a highly educated scholar and teacher and a gifted yet flawed human being driven by an optimistic yet ultimately unrealized vision...
16) Luther
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1974]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiv, 158 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book Eric W. Gritsch, a Lutheran and a distinguished Luther scholar, faces the glaring ugliness of Martin Luther's anti- Semitism head-on, describing Luther's journey from initial attempts to proselytize Jews to an appallingly racist position, which he apparently held until his death. Comprehensively laying out the textual evidence for Luther's virulent anti-Semitism, Gritsch traces the development of Luther's thinking in relation to his experiences,...
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